Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, film director, aviator and narrator. He is noted for his reserved demeanor and authoritative speaking voice. Freeman has received Academy Award nominations for his performances in Street Smart, Driving Miss Daisy, The Shawshank Redemption and Invictus and won in 2005 for Million Dollar Baby. He has also won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Freeman has appeared in many other box office hits, including Unforgiven, Glory, Seven, Deep Impact, The Sum of All Fears, Bruce Almighty, Batman Begins, March of the Penguins, The Bucket List, Evan Almighty, Wanted, The Dark Knight, and RED.[1]

During an interview on CNN on June 2, 2010, this exchange occurred:

Kiran Chetry: And you’ve said before, Morgan, that you’re a ‘man of god.’ When you did this and so many of these questions were posed—

Freeman: When did I say I was a ‘man of god’?

Chetry: You’re not?

Freeman: [laughing} No-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o. No no no no no.

Chetry: You’re a ‘man of faith’.

Freeman: Faith! There’s a big difference.

Chetry: Alright, so, the question of faith leads us, most of the time, to a god. What is your view of faith?

Freeman: Questions of faith is whatever you actually believe is. We take a lot of what we’re talking about in science on faith. We posit a theory… and until it’s disproven, we have faith that it’s true. If the mathematics work out, then it’s true. Until it’s proven to be untrue...

Morgan Freeman on CNN is not a man of God

Freeman as God in Bruce Almighty

Given his atheism, Freeman's portrayal of God in two movies: Bruce Almighty and Evan Almighty is highly ironic.

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